THE ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off – sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget.

Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she coanchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV – all at the same time.

“Thanks for the memories,” she sang to the tune of the old standard:

We came to do a show for very little dough By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row That’s cable TV.

Thanks for the memories This half a year flew by That Maury, what a guy Instead of asking: Who’s the daddy? He could talk Dubai How stunned were we all Thanks for the memories The thing I love the most About hubby as co-host Is all those other anchors were as dull as melba toast The sparks really flew Thanks for the memories Now that the show is through I’ve got bigger things to do But Maury is back weighing in:

Fat babies, how taboo!

He can’t get enough.

At the end of the song, she collapsed on the floor of the studio as the camera faded out.

Video excerpts of Chung’s offkey performance began popping up on the Internet almost as soon as it aired Saturday night.